I don’t remember all the steps, but it had nothing to do with the controller itself.
I had to edit system configuration - I entered the identifier of the motherboard USB device, and I told the system to allow it to wake the system from sleep. I’d have to search for the actual steps.
You’re welcome! Sometimes I wake it up with my wireless keyboard, other times I wake it up with the Thunderobot controller. I haven’t gotten Bluetooth activity to wake it up, but then again I haven’t tried hard.
I had to tweak the configuration so that it would wake up via activity from a USB device. But that’s just part of getting used to managing your system’s configuration, right? :)
I run Bazzite and I have a few 8bitdo controllers. I’ve only ever used them via bluetooth, but once they are paired they work perfectly.
I do have a Thunderobot G45 I use via dongle. It plugs in and works, no configuration or software needed. And after I set up my system settings properly, I can also use it to wake the system from sleep. But that was a Linux thing, had nothing to do with the controller.
Any of the major distros will probably work with any big-name game controller.
I’ve been “Linux-adjacent” for years, and recently switched my main gaming computer over to it. And I’ve seen exactly those frustrations so many times.
The good AND bad part about user-managed software is that the developer-users decide how things work, then things stay that way until other developer-users do things differently.
My most recent frustration? Drive automounting on boot.
On Windows or Mac, all physical drives mount when the system boots up.
On most, but all, varieties of Linux, it seems ONLY the system drive is mounted.
This gave me trouble when I tried to set a second drive as the default location for Steam.
Every time I rebooted, the Steam client forgot that I had a second hard drive. I didn’t realize why, because in system settings I told the computer to mount all drives on boot.
But. But.
By default, Bazzite seems to set secondary drives as external, rather than internal. Spork knows why.
So I had to sift through forum posts until I discovered that the internal drive was being seen as external. Then I had to figure out the combination of partition management tools and console commands to tell the system to mount the drive as an internal drive, rather than external.
It now works perfectly - after over an hour of research and a couple days of frustration.
There are two problems: 1. An extremely basic thing doesn’t work the way the majority of users expect it to, and 2. A majority of developer-users apparently think it works fine as it is and doesn’t need to be changed.
So I feel your pain. I’d rather be using Linux now for gaming and for my 3D printing related hobbies.
But for my day job, I’m on PC or Mac. I have to be, because I can’t stop working for two hours while I troubleshoot and find a solution to an obscure problem.
Several distros have those kinds of utilities built in.
Synaptics Package Manager comes preinstalled in lots of Debian derivatives.
Manjaro, Bazzite, and Endeavour have their own bespoke update managers. (Others do, as well, but those are the three non-Debians I’ve used most recently.)
Usually, some type of pun based on the hardware.
I mean, Manjaro wasthe first distro I truly used regularly.
But I’m no stranger to command lines, so there’s that.
Make sure everybody owns a a Nintendo DS, then load up Pictochat.
A utility to map extruded lines/objects/shapes to STL files. For example, say you have an STL of a curved vase. You want to add a spiral to it. So you place the photo of a spiral on the object. The utility lets you decide where on the STL it’ll be placed, then you can decide the extrusion depth (positive or negative).
Possibly including some type of LLM, too. So you can import your STL, then type something like “picture of the Simpsons in the style of ancient Greek amphora vase paintings.” It’ll appear as line art on the 3D object
Note that I don’t need this, myself. You want to work on something interesting, so I thought for a few minutes and came up with this. :)
It’s not in the bios, it’s a system configuration.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/848698/wake-up-from-suspend-using-usb-device#848699
https://askubuntu.com/questions/848698/wake-up-from-suspend-using-usb-device
Here you go, I found the links I started from. I’m on Bazzite, but Fedora and Debian seem to work similarly around this.
Edit to add: I just looked up Cachy, I see that it’s Arch. I’m not sure if Arch configures this in the same way, but hopefully this will at least lead you In the right direction.